The former presidentā€™s legal team requested a trial delay, saying Habba had been exposed to COVID and had a fever. She attended the party one day later.

Donald Trumpā€™s attorney, Alina Habba, was spotted rubbing elbows with Republicans in New Hampshire on Tuesday, just the day after asking for a delay in the ex-presidentā€™s defamation trial because she was feeling under the weather.

On Monday, one of the nine jurors considering writer E. Jean Carrollā€™s second defamation suit against Trump was excused for being ill.

Though Judge Lewis Kaplan and Carrollā€™s lawyers agreed to continue the trial with eight jurors, Trumpā€™s legal team requested a delay, saying Habba had been exposed to COVID and had a fever. She was not wearing a mask during the hearing.

The next day, however, Habba was sighted celebrating Trumpā€™s win in the New Hampshire primary by NBC Newsā€™ Garrett Haake.

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    Itā€™s one thing to be ā€œsmartā€ enough to memorize answers to a test. Hell, Iā€™m damn good at it myself. But itā€™s another thing to have common sense and good judgement. Obviously this lawyer is a prime example of being one and not the other.

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      Yup, my high school valedictorian was the dumbest person Iā€™ve ever met. But she could regurgitate information on a test without understanding it.

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        I never thought I was smart or dumb, just like a really, really good test taker. I didnā€™t retain close to what I should have from my university years.

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          Same. Pretty much I retain information just long enough for it to be useful, then I forget it as soon as I start learning/doing something else.

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        How else do you explain being able to pass any exam, bar or not, if you do not memorize answers? Granted, Iā€™m not suggesting that anybody knows the exact questions on any exam, but rather that you study material that gives you the answers to whatever questions may be asked.